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| Big Tuna | Jul 22 2014, 10:09 PM Post #61 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino, Since 9/15/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ROH Wrestling September 22nd, 2012 Providence, RI Strong vs. Mondo opens the show. INSIDE ROH: -Michael Elgin says he's told the world that Glory By Honor XI is his time, and Kevin Steen is the man still wearing the gold. Every second is part of time, but the last three seconds of their match will be a part of history, because he becomes the World Champion. Truth says it's time the belt finally came home with either Elgin or Roderick Strong. Elgin cuts him off and says he's sick of Roderick Strong and he's the man bringing the gold back. -Mike Bennett says Mike Mondo has never been kissed and he can't touch the first lady of ROH. He's usually happy go lucky, but nobody touches his girlfriend like that. This is actually a pretty fair point of view. -Jay Lethal vs. Davey Richards III is added to the GBH11 card. Clips air from the four way that QT Marshall won and of Cole/Evans. Eddie/SDR vs. PORDIGY/dat Maria air to end the show. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 22 2014, 10:11 PM Post #62 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino, Since 9/15/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ROH Wrestling September 29th, 2012 Chicago Ridge, IL The end of the Tag Title Tournament Finals between SCUM and Rhett/Haas air, and the post-match. Jay Lethal vs. Homicide airs. Cole vs. Mondo ends the show, along with Matt's segment post-match. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 23 2014, 02:59 PM Post #63 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino, Since 9/15/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ROH Wrestling October 6th, 2012 Baltimore, MD Match #1: Adam Cole vs. Tadarius Thomas [SOTF 1st Round] Fun six or seven minute movefest. TD shows off a lot of his super cool capoiera evasions and counters into kicks, and they had a nice story out of that where it's great to keep him away from a lot of stuff, but isn't going to do much offensively, so it was inevitable that Cole would catch him with stuff. He hit the Northern Superkick and the Florida Key for the win. **3/4 NEXT WEEK: DAVEY VS. PORDIGY IN THE TOURNAMENT OH GOD WHY WHAT THE FUCK, JIM? WGTT come out for a squash match. Rhett Titus comes out and instead challenges WGTT to face him. They accept since he has no partner, but then Rhett brings out BJ Whitmer. Match #2: WGTT vs. BJ Whitmer/Rhett Titus Good for BJ Whitmer for finally getting on TV and being back full time. He was easily the best dude in this, because while he's not great, he can at least do things well and puts in effort. This is only like five minutes. Rhett is a shitty FIP and WGTT suck, but BJ has a good hot tag. Shelton misses the Stinger Splash and BJ rolls him up to win. *1/2 Post-match, they attack BJ and run him groin-first into the ringpost like they did to Jay in the spring. INSIDE ROH: -SCUM vs. The Briscoes is announced for GBH11 -Maria says Mike Bennett has promised to take care of that slimy pervert Mike Mondo and she never wants to see him again. Mondo then comes into the interview and forces another kiss on her and leaves. Is this like...is Mondo supposed to be a face here? He's a creepy awkward dude going around and kiss-raping people. -Jay Lethal says he'd love to have a great wrestling contest with Davey Richards, but this is a match that he has to win and will win and he has to beat Kevin Steen. Wait, his title match is the weekend BEFORE this match, so...forget it. Fuck it. Guess Steen's winning that one. -RD Evans says it is supposed to be Lethal vs. Ciampa next week in the SOTF tournament, and says Ciampa is injured, but as an embodiment of his toughness, he fought it out for three falls and this is too important for a minor injury to keep them from succeeding, and says his man will compete at SOTF. In the ring, Kevin Kelly brings out SCUM. Corino steals the microphone and conducts the interview instead, and Steen asks Michael Elgin to come to the ring before their match at Glory by Honor. Michael Elgin and Truth Martini come out and Truth begins to do his bullshit, and Elgin takes the microphone from him. Steen says he doesn't like him and in Canada, he's going to have the ROH Tag Team Champions in his corner, and Elgin seems to be down both Rhino and Strong. Elgin says he doesn't need them. Steen says he came back to ROH to win the title and kill the company, but he also needs to steal the show to do that, and most times, he does. Except in Florida, when Michael Elgin and Davey Richards stole it. Main events cannot STEAL the show, guys. God damnit. Steen says he had one great night, but he's had six years of them to get this title and he's the one that's really unbreakable and he's the best thing going. Elgin attacks all three but Steen hits him with the belt. The House of Truth comes to save. Strong refuses to save, but Rhino and THE FUCKING HEADBANGERS WHO ARE STILL HERE run off SCUM. Match #3: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino [c] vs. Caprice Coleman/Cedric Alexander [ROH World Tag Team Championship] Really good seven minutes. Basic formula tag, but Corino and Jacobs are just the best at this. They don't have enough time to make it great, but lots of quality punches and heel work before Coleman's hot tag. After a year together, it's obvious that Cedric is both the star and better worker of the team, but Coleman does alright in these situations where he only has to do moves. Cedric hits Jimmy with the frog splash, BUT CORINO HITS HIM WITH A ROLL OF QUARTERS FOR THE DQ! **1/2 Post-match, Elgin comes back to run SCUM off. Edited by Big Tuna, Jul 23 2014, 03:00 PM.
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| Big Tuna | Jul 23 2014, 10:26 PM Post #64 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino, Since 9/15/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ![]() ROH Killer Instinct October 6th, 2012 Rahway, NJ Sorry, lost the first three matches of this. Michael Elgin vs. Mike Bennett - ** The Bravado Brothers vs. 3.0 - ** Bobby Fish vs. QT Marshall - 1/2* Match #4: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino [c] vs. WGTT vs. BJ Whitmer/Rhett Titus [ROH World Tag Team Championship - Three Way Dance] This really fucking blew. WGTT make everything boring and kill the crowd. Jacobs and Corino work a low impact basic style designed to help babyfaces shine, but on the surface, it's basically just a competent version of what WGTT has been trying to do in 2012, but with actual effort and creativity shown. However, the match becomes this super boring thing when they trade control of the babyfaces, and Rhett doesn't really do anything exciting or fiery for the crowd to get behind, as Rhett is a horrible FIP. BJ has a decent hot tag, but by the time this gets going, it's been killing the crowd for ten minutes, and they are just gone. Jacobs rolls up Haas to get rid of them, and then a minute later, Haas hits Rhett with a chair and Corino beats him with a Saito Suplex. *1/4 Match #5: Roderick Strong w/ Truth Martini vs. Kyle O'Reilly This is a ten minute sprint. I can't tell if they made the conscious decision to not have any focus and just do stuff or if they did that because they only had ten minutes, but hey. Strong works more face here since Kyle is a cunt and nobody ever really wanted to boo Roddy. Kyle does stuff and Strong wins with the End of Heartache. **1/4 Match #6: Davey Richards vs. Mike Mondo Davey seems much more energetic than he's been in like a year. Mondo also tries super hard to try and get over again, but despite their effort, neither of them is great. Davey had some good brief work on the arm, and Mondo sort of sold it. He let go with it and did that thing I hate where he uses the arm and then sells once every few minutes instead of after every move. Still, some good stuff in the finishing run despite the wasted time. Davey wins for the first time with his Texas Cloverleaf/Tequila Sunrise hybrid. **3/4 Match #7: The Briscoes vs. Eddie Edwards/Adam Cole Awesome, to nobody's surprise. This is the Eddie Edwards Special, as a face/face fifteen minute match without a ton of story and a basic layout and a great sense of escalation throughout. There's lots of really cool stuff and they sort of play with the classic idea that a great team beats two great singles wrestlers. Cole gets to shine with a really nice finishing run against Mark, and the Briscoes beat Cole with the Doomsday Device. *** Match #8: Kevin Steen [c] vs. Jay Lethal [ROH World Championship] Lethal's parents are at ringside. They have a pretty fun twenty minutes before the booking happens. It's your classic kind of Steen deal with lots of brawling to take over and then a good finishing run of teases and counters that are eventually paid off later on. Steen rolls out after the Lethal Injection, and then he goes to Jay's eyes. Jay's mom throws water into his face, so Steen spits in her face. Jay snaps and the match stops. Maybe tell your mom not to provoke crazy people. *** Jay throws people around and takes out a bunch of refs. Everyone comes out to try and break it up and Cornette makes SCUM leave. The crowd starts booing and eventually, Lethal leaves too with his parents, and it's announced as a no contest. Cornette finally stepped down as kayfabe booker after this show (in public, because he clearly still booked), and after the next set of TV tapings going into Final Battle, he left the company for good. ![]() Edited by Big Tuna, Jul 23 2014, 10:26 PM.
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| Big Tuna | Jul 24 2014, 03:19 PM Post #65 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino, Since 9/15/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ROH Wrestling October 13th, 2012 Baltimore, MD Match #1: Davey Richards vs. Mike Bennett w/ Maria & Bob Evans [SOTF 1st Round] This sure happened. For all his flaws, Davey Richards at least has the potential in him to throw quality strikes and stuff when he tries, and he's putting in more effort here and seeming to have more fun instead of trying to make every match into an epic. Still, it dies a death upon Bennett's control segment that continues to suck all heat out of every match and crowd. Mondo comes out again to distract Bennett by kissing Maria, and Davey hits a head kick to win. *3/4 A recap airs of Ciampa's injury in August. Tommaso Ciampa and RD Evans come out, and Ciampa is on crutches. RD goes over the leg injury and says Ciampa cannot make his scheduled match in the tournament against Jay Lethal. He says for a year and a half, Tommaso Ciampa was his thoroughbred, but when a thoroughbred has a broken leg, there's only one thing you can do. YOU SHOOT IT IN THE HEAD. Ciampa turns on him, but QT Marshall comes out to attack from behind. They beat Ciampa up with crutches and he rolls out. He's helped to the back, and RD Evans introduces Marshall as his new man. This was some great stuff, but it's wasted on Marshall. Match #2: Jay Lethal vs. QT Marshall w/ RD Evans [SOTF 1st Round] This is another whatever match. Lethal basically gets to have a showcase match to continue his rise up the card and pursuit of Steen. Prince Nana comes out to attack Evans and Marshall is distracted. Lethal then hits the Lethal Injection for the win. *3/4 INSIDE ROH: -WGTT vs. BJ Whitmer/Rhett Titus in a rematch is announced for Glory by Honor -A recap of the Steen/Elgin angle airs Match #3: Kevin Steen [c] vs. Rhett Titus [ROH World Championship] Jacobs and Whitmer are in both mens' corners. Corino is on commentary again. This is only seven minutes, but Steen does the best he can. On commentary, Corino says ROH has banned Steen from the affiliates dinner after his recent conduct. They have a decent brawl and the seconds interfere. Rhett tries to use the spike but the ref catches him, and Steen superkicks him and hits the F5 for the win. **1/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 24 2014, 09:33 PM Post #66 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino, Since 9/15/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ![]() ROH GLORY BY HONOR XI: THE UNBREAKABLE HOPE OCTOBER 13TH, 2012 MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO, CANADA Match #1: The Bravado Brothers vs. Caprice Coleman/Cedric Alexander Another very good opener. I don't think they have a great match in them, because this started kind of slow. The Bravados didn't bother with arm work this time after seeing how it was blown off the last time, and then the finishing run was pretty cool. Cedric again really shines, but Coleman has some cool springboard spots and the Bravados have cool double teams including LE CANNONBALL. C&C win with the Frankensteiner followed by a Frog Splash, now named the Overtime. **1/2 Match #2: Mike Mondo vs. Mike Bennett w/ Maria This is better than you might expect, due to Mondo taking some big bumps. He's still super average, but he's just killing himself to try and get over. It won't ever work because he's Cornette's boy and everyone hates Cornette for trying to kill ROH. This is where Mondo does a dive off the entrance thing and breaks his ankle on the landing. They go back inside, and Maria causes a distraction so Bennett can hit the TKO to win. ** A hype video airs for the next match. Match #3: WGTT vs. BJ Whitmer/Rhett Titus Holy FUCK, nobody cares. BJ Whitmer tries his best and looks great relative to the other three. Shelton had a really nice Superkick, which is more than he's showed in at least six months. Whitmer is beaten with the Tandem Powerbomb, to make sure this new team will never get off the ground. Because god damnit, WGTT are going to be a thing. *3/4 Footage airs from after "Killer Instinct" backstage, where Lethal was still going insane. He threw Cornette over a table and to the floor and that's supposed to write Cornette out with an injury. Before the next match, Jay Lethal gets on the mic. He says what happened last weekend was bullshit, and says SCUM and ROH can kiss his ass. He says he respects Davey Richards, but he's got a lot of stuff pent up to unleash on him tonight. Match #4: Davey Richards vs. Jay Lethal They tried for an epic again, and this came the closest of their three 2012 singles matches to actually getting there. They took the time to build the match up from the ground and actually earned the progression to huge moves. Lethal's "anger" was more that he was just more aggressive. I like that and the story worked well because this was great for once, but I hear that he has anger problems and I want him to fucking brawl and punch people and not do mat wrestling, no matter how good it may be. Anyways, Lethal knocked Davey off the top through the timekeeper's table and then Davey never really recovered. He blocked a few things, but Lethal showed the "killer instinct" by breaking out his old Cloverleaf Surfboard hold to counter the Ankle Lock and breaking out the Dragon Suplex to cut off Davey's comeback. He hit the Lethal Injection for 2.9, and then rolled it into the Koji Clutch after that, and Davey passed out in it. These kinds of matches are still flawed, but on a sliding scale, I call it great because it felt earned and they played on Lethal's story arc really well, with the aggression being what he needs to finally put away Davey. *** Roderick Strong is supposed to wrestle, but he comes out in street clothes with Truth Martini. Strong tells Truth that this is bullshit and he shouldn't be in the first match after intermission wrestling a rookie, and this is one of the biggest shows of the year. Strong says he's listened to Truth long enough and he's not going on strike, BUT HE'S OFFICIALLY QUITTING THE HOUSE OF TRUTH! YEAH! Strong says he's not out here but do that, and then he's going to go in the crowd and drink some beer and watch Truth's boy Michael Elgin fail. He walks to the back, and then Truth runs to the back after him. Truth drags Rhino out, and Rhino looks pissed and not quite ready. Match #5: Rhino w/ Truth Martini vs. Tadarius Thomas Rhino only had one knee pad and has his wrist tape off to sell that he's not ready for this. Good work. This is all of five minutes, but is a great five minute angle. Rhino takes over and Truth brings him a gear bag and Rhino tapes up his wrists and puts his elbow pads on during the match. Rhino gets pissed at Truth's interference given that Rhino clearly has this, but after taking the time out to say so, TADARIUS KICKS RHINO WHEN HE TRIES THE GORE AND GETS A LA MAGISTRAL CRADLE FOR THE HUGE UPSET! Awesome booking there. **1/4 POST-MATCH, RHINO HURLS TRUTH INTO THE RAILING AND WALKS OFF! FUCK YEAH! Match #6: Adam Cole [c] vs. Eddie Edwards [ROH World Television Championship] This has a thirty minute time limit for once, according to Nigel. Mr. Consistency again pulls off a great 15-20 minute face/face match. This probably could have been better, and I think they had enough chemistry here where they should have done a multi-match series building to Cole beating Eddie. As it was here, the outcome wasn't in a ton of jeopardy because the TV Title feels beneath Eddie and because Eddie hasn't been doing a bunch in the last few months either. Still, quality escalating stuff, and Eddie hits a Basement Northern Superkick and the Florida Key to win. *** Match #7: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino [c] vs. The Briscoes [ROH World Tag Team Championship] Great again. They start off with a wonderful brawl, and it settles into the basic formula tag that all four are so great at. Lots of good cheating spots from SCUM, and then Mark has a sweet hot tag as always. Jay Briscoe gets in as the legal man and hits Jacobs with the DVD. Mark goes up for the Froggy Bow, but Corino shoves the ref into the ropes to crotch Mark! With the distraction, Corino kicks Jay in the dick, and Jimmy rolls up Jay for the win. *** Before the main event, Kevin Steen gets on the mic. He says due to legal negotiations following the incident in New Jersey, Jay Lethal's parents are banned from ROH events, Jay Lethal will not be getting a title shot any time soon, and THE PACKAGE PILEDRIVER IS UNBANNED YEAH! And as promised, Strong is in the front row. Match #8: Kevin Steen [c] vs. Michael Elgin [ROH World Championship] Prior to the very good build for Cole/Elgin at BITW 2014, this was the last great big match feel for an ROH Title match. I can't count Steen/Generico at Final Battle, because that had a super obvious outcome and they clearly just threw Steen/Generico at a show to try and get a cheap draw. It worked, but still. This is the best epic main event title match in ROH in the 2010s too probably. It's a battle of the bulls type deal with Steen giving it the basic pro wrestling structure. Both men have a lot of super over offense and insanely protected finishers, so it meant a ton when both mens' got kicked out of. Steen then wins with a Super Package Piledriver, which is the way it should go after big epic finisher kickouts. They maybe didn't need 30ish minutes here and you could have cut some stuff out, but whatever. ***1/2 Post-match, Strong comes down and Sick Kicks Elgin and leaves. A referee brings a box to Nigel, and Nigel gets in the ring. He said he was just given this and orders were to present this if Steen retained. Steen is confused, and he opens the box. ![]() |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 25 2014, 09:42 AM Post #67 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino, Since 9/15/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ROH Wrestling October 20th, 2012 Baltimore, MD Match #1: Homicide vs. Roderick Strong w/ Truth Martini [SOTF 1st Round] Great TV vs. iPPV continuity here, ROH. They basically have a 2012 Roddy vs. Homicide match for ten minutes. Not a ton of effort and they do stuff, but they have enough cool stuff and casual kind of chemistry that it works out alright despite neither man really trying that hard. Which is frustrating. Strong hits the Death by Roderick, Sick Kick, and then the Gibson Driver to win. Weird that he has to break out the Gibson Driver for the first time in a while to beat a guy that hasn't been treated as much by ROH this year. ** Davey Richards comes out to watch the next match from ringside. Match #2: Kyle O'Reilly vs. Mike Mondo [SOTF 1st Round] This sure happens. While Mondo is super bland, he's at least not as bad as fucking Kyle. Mondo is still kind of awkward at points, but he does nothing stupid, I've noticed. Kyle is reigned in here by them only getting six or seven minutes, so that's nice too. They do stuff at the end and Mondo gets on a Kondo Clutch. Kyle taps the referee on the back like five times, and the ref obviously sees it as a tap out, so Mondo wins in kind of an upset. ** INSIDE ROH: -The SOTF finals are next week -A recap airs of the turn on Ciampa -They announce matches for the next TV taping on 11/3, including Steen/PORDIGY for the belt, and Cole/Kyle for the TV Title -Adam Cole says Kyle earned this shot by taking advantage of an opportunity, and a win is a win, and he can handle that. But now he has the opportunity to retain his title again, prove that he's the better wrestler, and hurt him for all he's done to him. He betrayed him and then broke up his face, but just like that night, he'll walk out with the win. Before the main event, Truth protests that the final match is Elgin vs. Rhino and neither of them will back down. Match #3: Michael Elgin vs. Rhino [SOTF 1st Round] This was a fun short one too. Roderick Strong came out to watch. This took a little bit to get going, but they got into a really nice power fight style deal at the end. Elgin overwhelms Rhino with his power at the end and gets past a big roadblock with his own Gore, the buckle bomb, and then the Spiral Bomb lastly for the win. **3/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 25 2014, 05:04 PM Post #68 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino, Since 9/15/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ROH Wrestling October 27th, 2012 Baltimore, MD Match #1: The Briscoes vs. The Bravado Brothers Quality Briscoes showcase. Bravados do some cool stuff, but DEM BOYS are a juggernaut that can't be fucked with, and are awesome at these kinds of things when all they have to do is be super charismatic and do crazy ass power offense. 2010s Briscoes is what The Steiner Brothers would be like if they never split up in the mid-late 90s AND had a revitalization in the ring and on the microphone with Scott's peak of insane promos in 99-01, but as part of the team. Which is insane to think about, and goes to show that the Briscoes crazily are in the discussion for best team ever. ** The Headbangers come out to challenge The Briscoes to a THIRD fucking match. A video airs on all the past SOTF matches. Delirious over Sydal in 2006 feels like even more of a missed call eight years later given that everyone else went on to be on top of ROH in some way (Danielson, Strong, Hero in a tag team, Black, Edwards, Elgin). There's a clear theme in the Gabe-era SOTFs from 2004-7 where it's always two guys in the finals who are linked to each other in a lot of people's minds with Danielson/Aries, Aries/Strong, Sydal/Delirious, and Hero/Claudio. Where as Pierce and Cornette just threw stuff out there with Black/Roddy (although that did rule as a final pairing), Edwards/King, and Elgin/O'Reilly. Match #2: Davey Richards vs. Roderick Strong vs. Michael Elgin vs. Jay Lethal vs. Adam Cole vs. Mike Mondo [2012 SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST FINALS] This is the last SOTF match to date, although it is coming back in 2014. This is unique among the SOTF matches as it's only 20 or so minutes, and really flies by like no other SOTF match besides the 2007 one (which was all that big fantastic SNSI Hero angle) and 2004 (which is one of the best ROH matches ever, period). This is good in theory, but they fuck it up with terrible layout. After maybe three minutes of stage setting with Strong not wanting any of Elgin, they have a wonderful dive train. Strong gets a blind tag and hits Mondo with the Sick Kick to get rid of him first, thankfully. Strong/Cole is nice, and Strong takes the time to cheap shot Elgin, but Cole then Superkicks Strong and eliminates him! Elgin makes short work of Cole with the Spiral Bomb to then eliminate him. Strong pushes Elgin off the top, and Davey hits him with an Exploder off the apron through the timekeeper's table. This gets rid of Elgin and Davey vs. Lethal brings this down from potential classic status. They have a bunch of limp dicked strike exchanges that look shoddy and barely connect and it goes on forever, and they could have kept Cole or Strong in this much longer. They then team up to beat Elgin with a Double Superkick. They have the BIG FUCKING EPIC thing, and Lethal wins with the Lethal Injection to earn another title shot. This is there with 2010 for the worst SOTF match. They focused half the match on a pairing that wasn't very good, and the layout lessened the ability of guys like Strong, Elgin, and Cole to make this great potentially. Also, SOTF has historically been a tool to put over a rising star, not to cheaply give someone a title shot because you're too lazy to figure out a better way to do it. Honestly, nobody in ROH stood to gain from this like Elgin in 2011, but Cole is the best choice of these six to have done it. What should have happened was what Gabe did in 2008 in his final momths, which was that he saw nobody who would benefit from SOTF and didn't run it. **1/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 25 2014, 05:07 PM Post #69 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino, Since 9/15/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ROH Wrestling November 3rd, 2012 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada The angle with Roderick Strong quitting the HoT and then Rhino/Thomas airs. A video airs from Matt Hardy. He says he's a fan of the ROH product and says they have the talent and personality, but they need that one mainstream well known character like him, a globally branded and world renowned superstar. Can't wait to see who that is. Highlights air of Steen/Elgin. Lethal/Davey is then aired in full. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 25 2014, 05:42 PM Post #70 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino, Since 9/15/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ROH Wrestling November 10th, 2012 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Mike Bennett vs. Mike Mondo airs. INSIDE ROH: -Matt Hardy says he was here to see Adam Cole, and sad he heard about his star making performance in June, but he's not impressed by working through injuries. He says he had a tear in his abdominal wall and nobody called that a star making performance when he finished the match. That's the injury that made it impossible for him to do a lot of gym stuff and made him fat in 2009 and largely ended his great 2007-8 run. He says he and his brother are responsible for the ROH style and Adam Cole existing, but he's not an icon yet like Matt Hardy is. -Kelly says Jim Cornette's last official act as matchmaker was to book Adam Cole vs. Matt Hardy at Final Battle in a non-title match -Adam Cole says the irony in what Matt Hardy says is that for years, Matt was told for years that he wasn't good enough and that he couldn't do something. He's a lot like Matt, sure, but he's not a second rate anybody. He's the first Adam Cole, and that means he's going to beat him in New York City. -Michael Elgin says he doesn't trust Truth to get him the match he wants, and he demands Roderick Strong at Final Battle -A phone call from Jim Cornette airs and says he's assigned a new matchmaker and he'll take over after he's announced next week Cole vs. Edwards ends the show. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 25 2014, 07:13 PM Post #71 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino, Since 9/15/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ROH Wrestling November 17th, 2012 Belle Vernon, PA TONIGHT: COLE/O'REILLY FOR THE TV TITLE The Briscoes come out with an ROH banner and Jay gets on the mic. He calls everyone in the back down to the ring and most of them come out. Basically everyone but SCUM and Jay Lethal and WGTT come out. Jay calls them out by name and says they're two rich assholes, and that's why they ain't out here. Jay says he's disappointed not to see Jay Lethal not out here, but they know he's got their back and they've all got his. The three main people not out here are Corino, Jacobs, and Steen. SCUM. The group trying to bring down this company and that thinks it's cool to disrespect ROH, but the problem he has is that they've convinced fans it's cool to shit on ROH. When you do that shit, you're knocking DEM BOYS and everyone else around this ring right now too. You're knocking Bryan Danielson and CM Punk and Samoa Joe and Austin Aries and everyone else that's busted their ass here to make this place and dem belts matter. Jay says this reign of terror shit is about ready to be over. Jay says they went to straighten shit out with Jim Cornette for all the shit he's done, and says they're here to announce the man that the locker room chose by consensus to be their new matchmaker, AND IT'S NIGEL MCGUINNESS! YEAH! Jay Briscoe can talk circles around everyone else in the company and basically just put on the mission statement ROH needed post-Cornette. Jim Cornette was still here for this show, but they were clearly trying to make it seem like he was legit gone, before reports came out after the taping that he was NOW legit gone. Anyways, Nigel gets in the ring and on the mic and says this was built on honor, the idea of the best fighting the best for the honor of being the absolute best. He started wrestling a few years before ROH was even a thing but he came here when he was young and when ROH was young, and for better or worse, his legacy exists inside ROH and in this ring, his dream became a reality with a lot of these guys, but that ROH has been gone for a few years. He sees signs of it from some guys here and says being in ROH should make you proud, and he's proud that they chose him, and they can take back ROH. He says it's been rough, but he knows people still believe or want to believe. He acknowledges that the fans want to see Kevin Steen and he'd be a fool to ignore that. They also want to see somebody else, so his first decision is that at Final Battle, the main event will be Kevin Steen defending the title against EL GENERICO IN THE FUCKING LADDER WAR! YEAH! Nigel says on the subject, he needs opponents for Corino and Jacobs. He says Coleman and Alexander were robbed against them just like the Briscoes, AND MAKES IT A THREE WAY! He shakes hands with Jay and Jay says they don't raise the bar. ROH IS the bar, and while it ain't gonna happen until after Final Battle, 2013 is gonna be the year where SCUM dies and honor lives. Awesome angle here. Match #1: MsChif vs. Allysin Kay Showcase for MsChif, but it's a nice idea to sell the shadow of Cornette being gone by getting women's action back, which has largely been missing since spring 2011. This isn't good because Kay kind of sucks, but at least they got time to try. MsChif wins with the Desecrator. 3/4* Before the next match, Truth Martini comes out to try and be in Strong's corner anyways, and Strong keeps shooing him away. Truth then joins commentary. Match #2: Roderick Strong vs. Tadarius Thomas Truth says that he is releasing Rhino from his services so that his beloved Man Beast can pursue other opportunities, and claims he and Roderick are still aligned too. This match is awesome for the time given. Roddy breaks out a crazy Torture Rack throw into a backbreaker on the top turnbuckle from the apron. Roddy works more as dominant face than as boring heel, and is a lot more explosive here. Thomas has some cool acrobatic stuff. Strong hits the End of Heartache for the win. **1/4 Truth comes in to celebrate, and Strong gets on the mic. He asks how he doesn't get the hint and repeats that he's done with him, and Truth is nothing but a dweeb little piece of shit. INSIDE ROH: -Final Battle: Doomsday is on 12/16 -Clips air from Steen/Generico at Final Battle 2010. They frame it as Generico is the only man left in ROH with experience beating Kevin Steen since he turned heel in 2009. Steen was beaten in 2010 by Davey Richards and Tyler Black, but Black is gone and Steen beat Davey twice to take the title. -C&C cut a promo. Cedric says they all want to beat the crap out of SCUM, and Coleman says they're going for the gold. -It's SCUM vs. Whitmer/Titus for the belts next week -Matt Hardy says the match is official for Final Battle and says Cole's potential doesn't matter, and he has nothing to prove to ROH or Adam Cole, and he's doing this as a favor to a company he likes and as a light workout, and Cole will be the one suffering an unfortunate Twist of Fate. -Jay Lethal says Jim Cornette told him to get a killer instinct, so he did that and got his shot, so now he's the bad guy for showing that. He's frozen out of the title picture, and he can't cash in SOTF until Steen loses the title now. -Jerry Lynn's ROH retirement match is announced for Final Battle against Mike Bennett. UGH. Match #3: Adam Cole [c] vs. Kyle O'Reilly [ROH World Television Championship] This is under ten minutes, which was nice as it forced them to just do a constant action type deal which produced their best match together besides BITW. Kyle has some terrible wobbly selling as everything he does looks super self conscious yet again, but otherwise, good stuff. Davey Richards comes out during this to join commentary and he asks Nigel for mic time next week, and Nigel gives it to him. They do stuff and Cole hits the Northern Superkick and Florida Key for the win. **1/2 |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 25 2014, 09:14 PM Post #72 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino, Since 9/15/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ROH Wrestling November 24th, 2012 Belle Vernon, PA WGTT come out before their match and demand a title shot. Nigel gets on the mic and says they can have a title shot if they beat their opponents tonight, and he brings out C&C. Match #1: WGTT vs. Caprice Coleman/Cedric Alexander Poor Cedric. BJ and Rhett came out to do commentary and that was horrible. Rhett sounds like he has no idea how to converse in public in a casual manner, which is probably accurate. WGTT do their subpar effort deal and then Haas attacks BJ on the floor. The faces beat up Haas behind the ref's back, and Shelton is beaten with the Overtime. *1/2 Match #2: Bobby Fish vs. Ryan McBride UGH. BOO. Fish does his shitty awkward Indy Wrestling shtick with a generic dive and some kicking that doesn't look good. I need some impact here, guys. If you're working a style based on hard hitting, then I need some kind of representation that you're hitting hard. You have kick pads for a reason, guys. Make the thud or slap your leg or something to make this work right. Fish wins with a shitty head kick. 3/4* Post-match, Veda Scott interviews Fish. Bobby mentions that he and Eddie Edwards teamed up in NOAH in the tag tournament and Eddie suggested he come to ROH, so he took his advice and he thanks Eddie for the tip. Davey Richards comes out, still in the same clothes as last week for some reason. Davey gets the mic and says to make a year and a half long story short, he turned his back on people he shouldn't have and he trusted the wrong people, and he was an asshole. His goals now are to put on the best damn wrestling matches in the world and to right some of those wrongs. He says Eddie Edwards is overseas kicking ass right now, so he'll settle that later, and asks Kyle O'Reilly to come out here. Kyle comes out and says he threw him under the bus and Davey sits on this pedestal, and he's sick of it and sick of being a doormat, and that's why he did what he did in New York. Davey says he's gonna get real honest. Since they met, all he's done is help Kyle, and says he's the one that moved him from Vancouver to St. Louis and who gave him money to eat when he didn't have food and who drove with him for hours when he could have taken a plane. Davey says since Kyle wants to get real, Kyle just got married and asks Kyle who it was that introduced them and says all he's ever tried to do is help him, but Kyle took that for granted and he's been spreading rumors about him and not showing up to the gym and not returning his calls. Davey says if he wants to reform Team Ambition, to let him know, but he's done playing games. Kyle unconvincingly apologizes and says he wants the ROH Tag Titles, and they shake hands. AND THEN KYLE KICKS DAVEY'S LEGS OUT. Davey fights back and Bobby Fish runs out to kick Davey in the head. He puts Davey in the crossface and Kyle does some horrible taunting and they leave together. Davey did his part well, and then Kyle was terrible and the result is awful. So this was like 1/3rd of a great angle. INSIDE ROH: -Michael Elgin vs. Roderick Strong has been signed for Final Battle -Truth Martini says this match cannot happen and he refuses to make this happen and nobody gets to destroy his House -The Briscoes say DEM BOYS been thrown a little curveball and says they like it fast and straight down the middle. Jay says this match won't be elimination now and the first team to pin the champions will win the belts. He says it's gonna be a horse race, but they're gonna be eight time champs, and not a damn thing can be done about that. -Adam Cole says Matt's done a lot of talking lately and a lot of people think he's being complimentary, but he finds it condescending. He thinks Matt is trying to convince ROH and the people and probably himself that he still matters, but he doesn't buy it. -Jay Lethal vs. Rhino has been signed -Jay Lethal says El Generico is getting the match that he deserves at Final Battle, and win or lose at Final Battle he gets nothing, and says "fuck it" and takes his mic off and leaves. -Next week, it's Elgin vs. Richards in a cheap rematch to get people to the show Match #3: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino [c] vs. BJ Whitmer/Rhett Titus [ROH World Tag Team Championship] Everyone but Titus looks good and puts in the effort here. Your textbook old school heel/face thing. Lots of nasty looking punching and cheating type stuff from SCUM. Rhett is best as the FIP because it means he's not the hot tag and Jimmy and Corino can carry it before BJ is a quality hot tag. WGTT come out to interfere too of course and they hit the Powerbomb to BJ on the floor. Rhett is alone and Corino hits the Bridging Saito Suplex for the win. **1/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 25 2014, 09:57 PM Post #73 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino, Since 9/15/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ROH Wrestling December 1st, 2012 Belle Vernon, PA This episode got lost with some internet nonsense. The Briscoes vs. The Headbangers - *1/4 In the back, Davey went to Nigel and asked for Wolves vs. Kyle & Fish at Final Battle. QT Marshall vs. Adam Page - *3/4 Post-match, Nana came out and attacked RD Evans and tore off his clothes. QT ran off Nana and Nigel booked RD Evans vs. Prince Nana for Final Battle. This is where I was when the review was eaten. INSIDE ROH: -WGTT vs. Whitmer/Titus in a Street Fight is announced -A recap airs of the interference in both matches last week -American Wolves vs. Fish/Kyle is confirmed, although Eddie is in Japan and doesn't know it yet, but Davey says he knows Eddie will come back to help him. -Next week is Steen/Bennett for the ROH Title Match #3: Davey Richards vs. Michael Elgin This was way better than I expected. It's still flawed, but at only 15-20 minutes, it's a lot easier to have a good bombfest. There again wasn't much in terms of story or flow, but they did better than the first match due to less expectations and Davey having a lot more fun without the pressure of whatever he thinks the "best in the world" should wrestle like. Less bullshit, certainly. Elgin has some fun power stuff, and surprisingly pulls off the upset with the buckle bomb and then Spiral Bomb for the pin. **3/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 25 2014, 11:14 PM Post #74 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino, Since 9/15/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ROH Wrestling December 8th, 2012 Belle Vernon, PA Match #1: Kyle O'Reilly/Bobby Fish vs. The Bravado Brothers Kelly expounds on this conspiracy that hasn't been mentioned on the show really at all. Fish apparently went to NOAH solely to team with Eddie so he could study him (despite Fish having been going to NOAH for like 5+ years) and get Eddie to recommend him to come to ROH, so they could form this team. Whatever. Awesome hot tag from Harlem Bravado, but the future reDRagon wins with the worst looking Total Elimination of all time. These points are all for the Bravados, who somehow carried this through strength of bumping and hot tag offense. *3/4 In the back, SCUM cuts a promo. Jimmy says to look at Nigel McGuinness and says he's done more in one taping than Jim Cornette did in three years, and he's put them in a three way match at Final Battle with sudden death rules. Steve Corino calls Nigel a washed up limey and says Jim Cornette was bad enough, but now Nigel had a vendetta against them. Corino says they're too smart to lose the titles now and Kevin Steen is champion because of their brains, and they always find a way out. Steen says he knows Nigel and he thinks that he's done something smart by bringing Generico back and putting a ladder between them and hanging his title above the ring. All he's done is ruin Generico's career. A video airs on the Steen/Generico history, going back to them winning the titles in 2008. Before the match, Jay Lethal gets on the mic and thanks the crowd for cheering and says he's apparently the new whipping boy backstage. He gave ROH their killer instinct, and now he's getting fined and chewed out and at Final Battle, El Generico has the title shot that should be his. He asks why he's wrestling Rhino and says he gains nothing from winning besides getting to beat someone up and promises to fight the World Champion soon. Match #2: Jay Lethal vs. Chris Silvio Yeah see, you can tell Cornette is still in control secretly for this taping, because this faggot is booked. At least Lethal basically squashes him. He runs through his offense and hits the Lethal Injection to win. *1/2 INSIDE ROH: -Eddie Edwards has yet to respond to anyone from ROH about the match -Kyle and Fish say Davey is an island to himself. Fish says he spent a month in Japan with Eddie Edwards and while he doesn't like Kyle much, the Wolves are over. Kyle says this is a funeral for Davey Richards, and they're the new great tag team. -Davey Richards says he's the stupid one apparently, and Kyle fooled everyone. He says he should have believed Eddie Edwards a year ago, but he knows he's sorry and he knows if Eddie can physically make it, he'll be there for him, and the wolves are coming to take the sheeps' heads. -C&C talk and Cedric says the Briscoes are seven time champions, but they're on a roll now. Coleman says they beat WGTT in the middle of the ring and this train is on board, and sings that the train is coming and they're the conductors. Never talk again, Caprice. -The Briscoes say Caprice and Cedric is on a roll now and Mark says he can sing too and sings that dem boys are gonna put a bullet in their hind parts. Jay says they just beat WGTT, but they just beat the Headbangers and they're about the same level of talent these days. DAT BURIAL. -Next week is a street fight between Jay Briscoe and Steve Corino. Match #3: Kevin Steen [c] vs. Mike Bennett [ROH World Championship] Jacobs and Bob Evans are on the floor. Steen is wearing Maria's "I'M A LADY" t-shirt to taunt Bennett, who Kelly says wouldn't let Maria anywhere near a SCUM match. Corino joins commentary and says he's jacked off to Maria at least thirty times. This is best Bennett match in a while as Steen guides him through the low rent kind of Steen match for ten minutes. Lots of big moves and Steen takes care of everything Bennett usually sucks at. Steen hits the Package Piledriver for the win. **1/2 Post-match, Steen gets the mic. He says Eddie Edwards, Davey Richards, Roderick Strong, Mike Mondo, Rhett Titus, Homicide, Rhino, Michael Elgin, and now Mike Bennett have failed to beat him. Jay Lethal complains about how he didn't lose to him and says it's Jay's idiot mother's fault that he'll never get another title shot. Jay tries to run out, but referees hold him back on the floor to end the show. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 26 2014, 01:49 AM Post #75 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino, Since 9/15/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ROH Wrestling December 15th, 2012 Belle Vernon, PA Match #1: Davey Richards vs. Vinny Marseglia Solid Davey showcase. He's selling the neck and back damage from the reDRagon attack and the Elgin match, which is nice and totally unlike him. I'm kind of upset about how good Davey's been generally since he returned. Like, if he was this good and focused on just having fun during this infuriating 2010-12 BEST IN DA WURLD~ run, I would have never started hating him. Kyle and Fish watch from the stage. Davey wins with a Sliding Enzuiguri. *1/2 In the ring, Kevin Kelly brings out Mike Mondo on crutches. Apparently, he actually broke his ankle on a meaningless Flair bump into the railing and not on the dive off the entrance, which is much more symbolic of his ROH tenure. He talks about his injury and blows ROH and says he's going to come back. Roderick Strong and blows him the fuck out by saying nobody cares about him and that was so inspiring that he almost cried, then he remembered Mondo is the worst. He thanks Mondo for hyping the crowd up, KIND OF LIKE A CHEERLEADER. I LOVE RODDY. He kicks his crutches out. Strong says he's gonna break the unbreakable and Michael Elgin comes out. Elgin dares him to do something now, and Truth comes out. He begs with them to stop and Roddy tells Elgin to listen to his boyfriend. Elgin says he's gonna kill him, and Roddy says he's not gonna kill shit and says he's carried Elgin, Truth, and all ROH. Elgin goes to attack, but Truth stops him, AND STRONG CHEAP SHOTS ELGIN WITH ONE OF MONDO'S CRUTCHES AND BAILS! INSIDE ROH: -Card rundown -Eddie Edwards responded to Nigel's e-mail and said he will be at Final Battle, but didn't confirm if he'd agreed to be Davey's partner Match #2: Jay Briscoe vs. Steve Corino [Street Fight] Corino comes out in a suit for this and Kelly says Corino claims he only came here in a suit and wasn't supposed to wrestle. This ruled anyways. They both throw some awesome right hands and do chair stuff early on. They move onto tables and Corino gets double stomped through one off the apron. Coming off break, JAY FURIOUSLY BEATS THE SHIT OUT OF CORINO WITH A FUCKING GYM SHOE. Jacobs comes to help, AND CORINO HITS JAY WITH A ROLL OF QUARTERS AGAIN! BUT MARK COMES OUT TO SAVE FROM THE PIN AND DIVES ONTO JIMMY YEAH! Mark then goes to the back and wheels out a fucking wheelbarrow full of chairs. He chases Jacobs away and they do more cool shit. They set up the guard rail over chairs in the middle, AND JAY SUPERPLEXES CORINO ONTO IT FOR THE WIN! ***1/2 Corino landed on the edge instead of the middle, and he went to the hospital after. This led to the blow up between Cornette and SBG officials and Cornette finally quitting. Anyways, Kevin Steen comes out after the break, and he takes the mic and sits in the chair. He has the El Generico mask and says on December 18th, 2010, he stood in the ring prepared to end El Generico's career. But that's not what happened and that night El Generico beat him and he woke up the next morning with the worst feeling of his life, realizing that he'd ended his career. He refused to let that happen, and since then, he's taken over this company and you'd think that would be enough to make that feeling go away, but nothing's made him feel better about what happened two years ago. He thought Final Battle 2010 would be their last fight, but at Final Battle 2011, he realized that the two of them are destined to do this forever. This time, the ROH Title will be hung in the air with a ladder between them, and people want to think that scares him. He doesn't get scared that easily. People want to know what he'll do, but he doesn't know because he's never been in the place he is now. He goes out and makes Kevin Kelly stand up and says two years ago, Kevin Kelly said he was scared of what they would do to each other. He makes Kelly repeat that, and Steen yells that right now, HE SHOULD BE TERRIFIED. BECAUSE THIS IS LADDER WAR. THIS IS STEEN VS. GENERICO FOR THE ROH WORLD TITLE. And while he doesn't know what to expect from himself, he knows that a lot of people are afraid of the end of the world on December 21st. He's not scared of that, but he's scared of waking up December 17th knowing El Generico is the ROH World Champion, and he can't let that happen. And he will either leave New York City as the World Champion or as a god damned corpse. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 26 2014, 05:26 PM Post #76 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino, Since 9/15/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ![]() ROH FINAL BATTLE 2012: DOOMSDAY DECEMBER 16TH, 2012 THE HAMMERSTEEN BALLROOM NEW YORK, NY Match #1: Michael Elgin vs. Roderick Strong Not sure why this is opening, but hey. Truth comes out to watch. This is only 11 minutes for some reason, but they have a lot of cool stuff. There's some cool stuff here as they basically work a back and forth thing since they're both kind of babyfaces now. Lots of strike battles that Elgin wins, but when Truth throws the book in the middle of the ring, Strong uses it first and hits Elgin with it to block the Spiral Bomb. He then hits the End of Heartache to win. HORRIBLE move here considering Elgin was super hot coming off beating Davey and the Steen match, and Roddy will kind of always be sort of over. Delirious is in control of booking now and while he doesn't make the insanely stupid mistakes and calls that Cornette does, he's still prone to these kind of dumb things. **3/4 Post-match, Truth tries to suck up to Strong, who says he wants nothing to do with him, and leaves. Truth then sucks up to Elgin and says he would be nowhere without his guidance, and says this is a slap in the face. He slaps Elgin, SO ELGIN HITS THE BUCKLE BOMB AND A ROLLING BACKFIST TO KILL TRUTH. YEAH! If this was the end of Truth Martini, it would be a really well done arc over 3ish years. Sleazy snake oil salesman somehow gets 2-3 top guys in his stable, and then they all leave him around the same time when realizing he's full of shit and then he dies. Match #2: Jay Lethal vs. Rhino Steve Corino joins commentary for this. This is generally pretty fun. Rhino does his solid power stuff for nineish minutes, despite that this is a set up match for a post-match angle. Lethal does good as usual, and continues to be the king of two and a half star matches. Lethal continues the aggression near the end by throwing all his offense to cut off Rhino's obvious intentions. He wins with the Lethal Injection. **1/2 Post-match, Corino gets on the mic. He congratulates him on a meaningless victory and says he has a lot of balls to say he'll get involved in the main event and he fails to realize that he couldn't beat Kevin Steen in Rahway, NJ, and he's such a hypocrite that he uses the riot after the match to say he deserves it. Corino says he used to like him and he was a good young kid who carried everyone's bags, but he can't mess up SCUM's main event and Jacobs comes from behind to attack. It's a two on one AND THEN RHINO GORES LETHAL! YEAH! Corino says Lethal will NEVER face Kevin Steen and he will NEVER be ROH Champion, and Rhino leaves with SCUM. Match #3: Prince Nana vs. RD Evans w/ QT Marshall NANA COMES OUT IN THE OLD JIMMY RAVE ROBE! AWESOME! This is surprisingly fun, and you remember that they're both actual trained wrestlers. They keep it pretty short and do a lot of comedy and shockingly good wrestling. ERNIE OSIRIS RUNS OUT TO RETURN TO TAKE OUT QT MARSHALL! YEAH! But then ROH is a downer and Evans wins with the Reverse Styles Clash. ** Post-match, Ciampa comes through the crowd on a crutch and The Embassy bails. Hype vid for the next match. Match #4: WGTT vs. BJ Whitmer/Rhett Titus [Street Fight] This wasn't chaotic like a Street Fight in ROH should be, but they did enough cool weapon stuff to finally get the WGTT past that *3/4 level that they've hovered at for the last year or so due to their refusal to try. They do some cool stuff for the finishing run, and BJ takes a nasty kind of Decapitation spot onto a propped up guardrail. BJ also dies at the end, probably. One of his many deaths that has rendered him a walking corpse in 2014. ![]() That is obviously the finish. Because WGTT can't actually lose matches more than once or twice a year, apparently. ** They air video of the ROH Title dying for a three year span before Kevin Steen brought it back to life to sell Lynn's farewell. Match #5: Jerry Lynn vs. Mike Bennett w/ Maria & Bob Evans This is horrible. Really atrocious. Lynn is old and not quite slow, but he continues his tired fucking routine that got tired in 2000. Bennett is still horrible. No real chemistry here at all. Brutal Bob and Maria interfere a lot and Bennett goes back to the shitty Side Effect for the win. At least they took time to bury Lynn with the finish, so that was nice. *1/2 Post-match, the heels leave. Jerry Lynn gives a goodbye speech, and Nigel comes out to give him a plaque and puts him over or whatever. Lynn leaves, and then Jay Lethal comes out. He says Nigel has been ducking him all day and he wants to talk. He says he's not hurt bad enough to be done tonight and he wants to use SOTF title shot tonight and it should be a three way ladder war now. Nigel says he can't and he knows the terms of the lawsuit. Lethal threatens him and Nigel refuses, so Lethal spits on him and says that's what ROH is doing to him. Officials keep them apart, and Nigel leaves and they carry Lethal out. After that, Kelly brings out Mike Mondo on crutches for an interview. He tries to sound tough by saying he'll be back soon in like a month or something. Whatever. reDRagon comes out to mock and attack him. Davey Richards saves by himself, but then Eddie Edwards runs out to save him. They shake hands, and the match is on. Match #6: The American Wolves vs. Kyle O'Reilly/Bobby Fish This is upsettingly not awful, because it's only like 12-13 minutes. It's not great because Fish and Kyle are still really bad at the style they do with shoddy looking and sounding kicks and unconvincing heel stuff, still looking like two guys playing pro wrestling. There's also a lot of super choreographed looking stuff, but Eddie and Davey really did try their best and put out a great finishing run. This is basically the ROH version of the WWE thing in the late 2000s where a cocky heel team would call out DX and not be totally ready for the ass kicking they've asked for. The kids do well, but the Wolves are the Wolves. Eddie puts Kyle in the Achiiles Lock and then stomps his head into unconsciousness. **1/2 Match #7: Adam Cole vs. Matt Hardy This is not as horrible a performance as Matt might put on from 2009-11, so he's at least out of the weird fat/grapes/drugs phase and just looks like a normal old past his prime guy. Which, I mean, he's an old past his prime guy so this won't be great, but it's at least decent. They only get twelve minutes, and do a decent formula thing. Stupidly, Matt Hardy wins after a kick to the dick and a roll up. Matt Hardy's ROH run really did nobody any favors since he didn't put anyone over besides like Elgin, Steen, and The Briscoes, who were already super over, and he never really boosted their numbers because he's not an actual star. This was a shot for him to be used correctly as a one off to put over a future top guy, and they decided to not do that and to do a horrible long-term thing too. **1/2 Match #8: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino [c] vs. The Briscoes vs. Caprice Coleman/Cedric Alexander [ROH World Tag Team Championship] This is only seven minutes as the time on this show continues to be super weird. This could have also been great, but he time really holds them back as they only get to touch on Jimmy and Corino's sneakiness before it breaks down and the faces have some cool shit. Jacobs is hit again with the Doomsday Device, and the Briscoes regain the titles. SCUM really should have had the titles longer to get over their sneakiness and ability to keep escaping with the titles. As it is, they had them three months and it's a pretty obvious conclusion here, and it didn't live up to the full potential because of booking. Still, hard to complain about the Briscoes getting the titles back, since it's ROH's default state for a reason. **1/2 Match #9: Kevin Steen [c] vs. El Generico [ROH World Championship - LADDER WAR IV] Awesome match, and the one great thing of the night. They built everything up well and did many dangerous things that got increasingly more dangerous and reckless. Basically everything you'd want from this pairing in this match at this point, except for the finish. This isn't their best match though. I think this is a pairing that gets better with the more freedom they have to play with different things, so they're not as good when they only have ladders to deal with instead of tables and chairs and chains and whatever else like they did in 2010 and earlier in the year. They bridge between a huge ladder and normal ladder with two different bridges, and Steen breaks the highest one with a Package Piledriver. Generico falls off and to the mat, and Steen gets the title down to win. ***1/4 In a world where El Generico isn't retiring in early 2013 to tend to orphans and sending his pupil Sami Zayn to the WWE in his stead, he should have won the title here. But as it is, with Generico leaving and not coming back, this isn't so bad, and Steen finally getting past El Generico with such certainty makes him now look even more unstoppable. In some ways, it's a nice nod to classic ROH booking. CM Punk didn't get to dethrone Samoa Joe. Nigel and Bryan didn't get to dethrone each other. 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| Big Tuna | Jul 26 2014, 05:34 PM Post #77 |
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TOP 25 ROH MATCHES OF 2012: 25. The Briscoes vs. Michael Elgin/Rhino, Live Strong (June 30th) 24. The Briscoes vs. Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino, Boiling Point (August 11th) 23. Davey Richards vs. Jay Lethal, Glory By Honor XI (October 13th) 22. Davey Richards [c] vs. Kevin Steen, Border Wars (May 12th) [ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP] 21. Eddie Edwards vs. Kyle O'Reilly, ROH Wrestling (February 11th) 20. The Briscoes [c] vs. The Young Bucks, 10YA (March 4th) [ROH WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP] 19. Kevin Steen [c] vs. Jay Lethal, Killer Instinct (October 6th) [ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP] 18. Eddie Edwards vs. Homicide, Best in the World (June 24th) 17. The Briscoes vs. Jigsaw/Hallowicked, Homecoming (January 20th) 16. Kevin Steen [c] vs. Homicide, ROH Wrestling (August 18th) [ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP] 15. Davey Richards vs. Eddie Edwards, ROH Wrestling (June 9th) 14. Jay Lethal vs. Adam Cole vs. Tomasso Ciampa vs. Mike Bennett, ROH Wrestling (April 7th) [MARCH MAYHEM FINALS] 13. Roderick Strong [c] vs. Adam Cole, ROH Wrestling (July 28th) [ROH WORLD TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP] 12. Jay Lethal vs. Tommaso Ciampa, Border Wars (May 12th) 11. The Briscoes vs. Kevin Steen/Jimmy Jacobs, Brew City Beatdown (July 14th) [NO DISQUALIFICATION MATCH] 10. Kevin Steen/Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino vs. The Briscoes/Rhett Titus, Caged Hostility (September 8th) [STEEL CAGE MATCH] 9. Kevin Steen/Jimmy Jacobs vs. El Generico/BJ Whitmer, Unity (April 28th) [NO DISQUALIFICATION MATCH] 8. Kevin Steen [c] vs. Davey Richards, Best in the World (June 24th) [ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - ANYTHING GOES] 7. Kevin Steen [c] vs. El Generico, Final Battle (December 16th) [ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - LADDER WAR IV] 6. Davey Richards [c] vs. Adam Cole, Rising Above (April 29th) [ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP] 5. Kevin Steen [c] vs. Eddie Kingston, Boiling Point (August 11th) [ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - ANYTHING GOES] 4. Kevin Steen vs. Jimmy Jacobs, 10YA (March 4th) [NO DISQUALIFICATION MATCH] 3. Jay Briscoe vs. Steve Corino, ROH Wrestling (December 15th) [STREET FIGHT] 2. Kevin Steen [c] vs. Michael Elgin, Glory By Honor XI (October 13th) [ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP] 1. Kevin Steen vs. El Generico, Showdown in the Sun N1 (March 30th) [LA REVANCHA~ - LAST MAN STANDING MATCH] |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 26 2014, 05:40 PM Post #78 |
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TAG TEAM OF THE YEAR: 2002: Da Hit Squad 2003: The Briscoes 2004: The Briscoes (2) 2005: Hillbilly JesHUSS 2006: The Briscoes (3) 2007: The Briscoes (4) 2008: Age of the Fall 2009: Kevin Steen & El Generico 2010: The Kings of Wrestling 2011: The Briscoes (5) This was a shitty year for ROH tag wrestling. The Young Bucks got dropped halfway through the year, WGTT were horrible, ANX were horrible AND got dropped halfway through the year, and the only other decent teams were a team that got forgotten about for six months (C&C) and then a team that didn't start wrestling until July/August, and were then kneecapped by bad booking (SCUM). So with that said, this title reverts to its natural state. ![]() 1. THE BRISCOES - 55 POINTS 2. Caprice Coleman & Cedric Alexander 28 3. Jimmy Jacobs & Steve Corino 23 4. The Young Bucks 21 5. WGTT 18 6. The Bravado Brothers 17 7. The All Night Express 16 8. Kevin Steen & Jimmy Jacobs 15 9. Roderick Strong & Michael Elgin 13 10. Team Ambition 11 11. BJ Whitmer & Rhett Titus 7 12. The Colony 5 13. reDRagon 3 14. The American Wolves 2 15. Los Ice Creams 2 16. Future Shock 2 17. 3.0 2 18. The Headbangers 2 |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 26 2014, 05:45 PM Post #79 |
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WRESTLER OF THE YEAR 2002: Low Ki 2003: Samoa Joe 2004: CM Punk 2005: Samoa Joe (2) 2006: Matt Sydal 2007: Claudio Castagnoli 2008: Jimmy Jacobs 2009: Kevin Steen 2010: Chris Hero 2011: Mark Briscoe 2012 began with a show with two Adam Cole matches, and he had an advantage that he kept through 2012 with a lot of great matches. Michael Elgin also had a similar year and hovered around. Jay Lethal and Roderick Strong kept collecting points with lots of ** level efforts and were a threat too. Jacobs and Corino were held back by booking. Kevin Steen didn't start working on TV until the spring, so he had an uphill battle, but like the story of ROH 2012 itself, Steen rose up and overcame to become the second ever two-time ROH WOTY award winner. Fitting that the other man to do it is Samoa Joe, as Kevin Steen breathed life into ROH and the ROH Title in 2012, resurrecting what Joe originally gave life to in 2003. ![]() 1. KEVIN STEEN - 69 POINTS 2. Adam Cole 68 3. Jay Lethal 62 4. Roderick Strong 59 5. Michael Elgin 58 6. Jay Briscoe 57 7. Mark Briscoe 54 8. Eddie Edwards 50 9. Davey Richards 48 10. Kyle OReilly 47 11. Jimmy Jacobs 37 12. Mike Mondo 35 13. Tommaso Ciampa 35 14. Cedric Alexander 33 15. Caprice Coleman 31 16. Rhett Titus 30 17. Steve Corino 27 18. Rhino 24 19. Charlie Haas 24 20. Kenny King 24 21. TJ Perkins 23 22. Matt Jackson 23 23. Mike Bennett 22 24. Nick Jackson 21 25. BJ Whitmer 20 26. Shelton Benjamin 19 27. The Bravado Brothers 17 28. El Generico 12 29. Homicide 11 30. Tadarius Thomas 11 31. Matt Taven 9 32. Fire Ant 8 33. Jigsaw 6 34. Hallowicked 6 35. QT Marshall 6 36. Lance Storm 5 37. Soldier Ant 5 38. Green Ant 5 39. Silas Young 4 40. Grizzly Redwood 4 41. Fit Finlay 4 42. Adam Page 4 43. Bobby Fish 3 44. Ruckus 3 45. Sabian 3 46. Eddie Kingston 3 47. Amazing Red 3 48. Chris Hero 3 49. Sara Del Rey 3 50. RD Evans 2 51. Matt Hardy 2 52. Prince Nana 2 53. 3.0 2 54. Irish Airborne 2 55. Bob Evans 2 56. Andy Ridge 2 57. Ricky Reyes 2 58. Ophidian 2 59. Los Ice Creams 2 60. The Headbangers 2 61. Jerry Lynn 1 62. ACH 1 63. Adam Pearce 1 |
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